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Journalism Refugees Education Fund

The corporation will foster, support, promote, and conduct the programs, projects, and activities designed to provide educational opportunities, including but not limited to college preparation, english as a second langauage courses, summer programs, and primary, secondary, and post-secondary education, for individuals who have worked…

$206k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$71k
Largest
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01What it funds
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $192,411, the rows itemized in this filing. The $206,139 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,728 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $96k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
$24,597
Median grant
6
States reached
$304k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHATHAM UNIVERSITY$70,808
CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE$29,418
NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$28,163
YORK UNIVERSITY$24,597
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$14,005
JCC PITTSBURGH$9,266
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY$8,573
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$7,581
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JCC PITTSBURGH: $9k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field
03the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 8 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHATHAM UNIVERSITY: $70,808 · EducationCHATHAM UNIVERSITYCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $29,418 · EducationCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATEDYORK UNIVERSITY: $24,597 · EducationYORK UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $14,005 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $8,573 · EducationDEPAUL UNIVERSITYNorthern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc: $28,163 · OtherNorthern Virginia Com…University of Maryland: $7,581 · OtherUniversity of Marylan…YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT: $9,266 · Human Services
Education$147,401Other$35,744Human Services$9,266

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHATHAM UNIVERSITY: $70,808 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $29,418 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc: $28,163 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY: $24,597 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $14,005 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT: $9,266 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $8,573 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Journalism Refugees Education Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Journalism Refugees Education Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Champlain College Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Journalism Refugees Education Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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